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ALL-STAR EP: Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi — Bringing a culture back from the brink

ALL-STAR EP: Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi — Bringing a culture back from the brink

Update: 2023-05-022
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Early-stage startups are a lot like pirate ships — they need a buccaneering spirit to survive. But every startup needs to shed its pirate nature at some point, and evolve into something more akin to a navy — no less heroic, but more disciplined. Dara Khosrowshahi, as Uber CEO, took on the most extreme pirate-to-navy transition in startup history. Though Uber blitzscaled to become the most valuable startup in the world, it was also notorious for its toxic culture — and Dara turned the company around. His method? Truth-telling and doing the right thing

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ALL-STAR EP: Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi — Bringing a culture back from the brink

ALL-STAR EP: Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi — Bringing a culture back from the brink